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#STRask: June 22, 2017

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:47 PM

Alan is on a timer, and answers questions about LGBT pride month and a pro-abortion argument.

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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Feb 28, 2020 1:28 AM

There are people around you who have no idea what Christianity says about Jesus. Here are four brief talks from the STR speakers on Christology and the Gospel to help you explain.

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Rod Rosenbladt, Martin Luther and the Good News Your Will Is in Bondage

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:49 PM

Greg interviews Dr. Rod Rosenbladt of the 1517 Legacy Project on the Reformation and Martin Luther’s Bondage of the Will.

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Street Tactics – Part 3

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 23, 2020 1:39 AM

you can use questions to explain the moral logic of the pro-life position to your

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Three Bad Arguments against Life Beginning at Conception

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:51 PM

A recent article argues “3 Ways Science Proves Life Doesn’t Begin at Conception,” but what happens when you apply those same arguments to newborns?

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You Don’t Care about Children after They’re Born

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Apr 9, 2020 2:28 AM

Dive into it and see if you can work through it with your friend. Here’s how.

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#STRask: How Would You “Take the Roof Off” a Denial of Objective Beauty?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 12, 2022 12:26 AM

Questions about whether it’s possible to go your whole life without sinning, why

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#STRask: How Should I Respond to Someone Who Says He’s Offended?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Dec 11, 2021 7:53 PM

Divine Mother and tactical ways to respond to someone who says he’s offended by your

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The Slippery Slope of the Right-to-Die Movement

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:36 PM

There’s one fact about you I’m sure of: even though you’ll live forever, someday your

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Do Pro-Lifers Compromise?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Oct 26, 2022 2:06 AM

Greg comments on whether an incremental approach to fighting abortion is compromising then answers questions about recommended resources on objective truth, whether we should reflect on...

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Aren’t We All Children of God?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Nov 16, 2023 8:57 PM

Greg explains the difference between being offspring of God in the sense of being made in his image and being children of God as heirs in Christ.

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Atheism and Universal Human Rights

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM

The purpose of this post is merely to provide clarity rather than to argue for the theist position (see all of STR for those arguments).

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No Stable Rights without Intrinsic Human Value

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:42 PM

Most pro-choicers know the fetal human being is scientifically alive. What they’re really objecting to is the idea of intrinsic human value—i.e., the idea that every member of...

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A Reformation the Church Doesn’t Need – Part 1

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM

single-minded—and you need to be ready for them, because and they are coming to your

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Compassion Means to Suffer With

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:51 PM

If only our society would once again define compassion not as offering to help people kill themselves, but as offering to walk with them through a difficult time.

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What Is Marriage from a Policy Perspective?

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM

What is marriage, why does it matter, and what are the consequences of redefining it? Ryan Anderson explains.

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Apologetics Removes Obstacles to the Gospel

Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jan 24, 2020 12:40 AM

In this fourth part of Tim’s “Why Apologetics?” series, he explains how apologetics does the work of pre-evangelism by responding to people’s ideas at the worldview level, removing obstacles to the...

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#STRask: Why Do Some New Testament Passages about Salvation Ignore Faith and Focus

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Feb 20, 2023 3:07 AM

Questions about why some passages about salvation in the New Testament (e.g., Matthew 25:31–46) seem to focus on works rather than trust in Jesus and whether the symmetry between Adam and Jesus...

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The Moral Logic of Being Pro-Life

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:54 PM

If your daughter came up to you and said, I’m tired of taking care of Grandma, I’

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Finding Truth: Free-Loading Atheists

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM

The fact that everyone has to function as though Christianity is true opens a creative opportunity for addressing the secular world.

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Bosnia, Rape and the Problem of Evil

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2020 11:35 PM

Greg responds to a letter to the editor in which the writer’s pain causes him to ask the age-old question of why God allows evil to exist.

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A Shrewd Insight from Francis Schaeffer

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:57 PM

Understanding the mannishness of man provides a powerful technique to get someone thinking.

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How to TRAIN Youth: Test Students to Engage Interest

Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Mar 31, 2023 8:55 PM

Tim Barnett explains how we can motivate students by identifying what they don’t understand.

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Monkey Morality: Can Evolution Explain Ethics?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:52 PM

Recent studies suggest that animals are capable of rudimentary forms of moral behavior. God isn’t the source of morality, evolutionists say; Mother Nature is. The evolutionary answer, though, does...

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#STRask: Will God Not Answer My Prayers if I’m Doubting He will?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Dec 16, 2022 4:40 PM

in the New Testament canon if the author is unknown and whether God won’t answer your

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Greg Koukl and Michael Shermer at the End of the Decade of the New Atheists

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:53 PM

A transcript of a dialogue between Greg Koukl and Michael Shermer on the Hugh Hewitt Show

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Why Jesus? Part 2

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:55 PM

Jesus, though a true human, was no mere mortal. Rather, He was and is God’s Son, the world’s unique, one-and-only Savior; and if Jesus were not God the Son, He could not be the Savior, either.

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Jesus, Recycled Redeemer?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:09 PM

Is Jesus of the Gospels simply recycled ancient myths?

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Some Atheists Seek to Create Doubt, Not Reveal Truth

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Oct 17, 2020 5:38 PM

In Peter Boghossian’s tactical approach in A Manual for Creating Atheists, anything that moves believers towards doubt is considered a success. Even invalid arguments with false premises.

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42 Years Later, Here’s Where Americans Stand on Abortion

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM

Today is the 42nd anniversary of Roe v. Wade and a good time to report on a recent poll that tried to get beyond the “pro-life” and “pro-choice” labels people claim for themselves to...

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Did the Punishment of Ananias and Sapphira Fit the Crime?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 25, 2019 10:27 PM

Greg explains why the deaths of Ananias and Sapphira were just.

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Are Atheists the Only Rational Ones?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:58 PM

Questions about whether atheists are the only rational ones, getting pictures from God, dealing with challenges as a pastor, and improving Bible reading.

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You Can Change Our Culture’s Mind on Abortion

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM

Making the pro-life case is completely within your ability.

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Following the Evidence

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:08 PM

Can the argument really be made that the Christian view is less biased than your

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How to Know Immaterial Things Exist

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:54 PM

Can you prove religious, ethical, or moral kinds of things? Learn how to avoid a materialistic view of the universe.

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Putting a Stone in a Shoe

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:10 PM

While waiting in line at the theater, I spoke to a young man named Ira who was a musician from Canada.

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Christianity: Fantasy or Reality?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:58 PM

Most people nowadays would not say that the religious stories believers believe are actually false. At the same time, though, they do not think they’re really true, either, in any deep sense of the...

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What We Can Learn about the Problem of Evil from Paul

Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Feb 3, 2022 4:09 PM

Jon Noyes explains how God can use our experiences of suffering for a greater good.

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Take a Tip from Lt. Columbo

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:35 PM

Have you ever taken a verbal beating when trying to talk about Jesus? If so, I’ve got a tip for you.

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Even after His Death, Jesus Fulfilled the Law

Web Content Article · By robby lashua On Aug 29, 2022 7:22 PM

Jesus fulfilled all requirements of the Law—not only during his life, but also after his death, as this little-known historical fact shows.

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The Trinity Explains This!

Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Feb 11, 2021 7:41 PM

Mr. B responds to an anti-Trinitarian meme, answering the charge that if Jesus is God, and Jesus prays to God, then Jesus is praying to himself.

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If You Don’t Know Whether the Unborn Is a Human Being, Then Don’t Kill It

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 13, 2023 12:15 AM

If you’re unsure whether your action might kill an innocent human being, then the

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Van Leeuwenhoek: Father of Microbiology

Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM

Antony van Leeuwenhoek was a Dutch Calvinist born in the 17th century who became the father of microbiology.

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Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:58 PM

Here’s a five-minute video to help you introduce these ideas to your friends and

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Science as God

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 26, 2019 11:08 PM

Alan’s monthly letter for November 2012 Secular culture has given God the boot. Science has emerged as the new religion and scientists are its priests.

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#STRask: How Would Persecuted Christians Have Understood Psalms Promising Protection and Rescue?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Nov 25, 2023 10:28 PM

contradiction for Jesus to say that some will be put to death but also that not a hair of your

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Misquoting God Part 2

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:51 PM

I would like to rescue you from a mistake virtually every Christian makes now and then when they go to the Bible that prevents you from knowing what God is saying to you personally in His Word.

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Evolution: Dancing on the Titanic

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:38 PM

Evolution is on its way out. It’s only a matter of time before the iceberg hits.

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Character at the Keyboard

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM

It’s possible to be heroic if you’re just sitting alone in your office.”

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What the Bible Doesn’t Say about Gender Identity

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Apr 30, 2020 8:39 PM

Alan explains what 1 Corinthians 6:9–10 says about gender identity.

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Give Greg a Call Tuesday

Web Content Article · By stand to reason On Oct 29, 2021 4:48 PM

Call the podcast with your questions and challenges for Greg during the live program

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My First Abortion Debate

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Sep 1, 2021 9:40 PM

Alan shares his first debate on abortion.

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Cultivate the Moral Imagination to Develop Character

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM

If you’re trying to teach your children moral virtues (or you’re being intentional

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Do We Have a Right to End Our Own Lives?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Apr 17, 2024 1:32 AM

euthanized, then he answers a question about how you can “trust in the Lord with all your

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America’s Unchristian Beginnings?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 24, 2020 4:05 AM

Greg responds to an L.A. Times Op-Ed article by this title.

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What Is Man?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:57 PM

What does it mean to be human? You can’t answer a single question of consequence regarding human beings without answering that question first. Everything vital, meaningful, and moral about us hangs...

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Science: Philosophy’s Handmaiden

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:36 PM

Philosophy and math must come before you can do any science. Science depends on the tools of other disciplines.

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A Moral Perspective on Abortion

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jul 13, 2022 2:23 AM

Greg discusses the moral argument against abortion and answers questions about how to respond to “God made me this way” and how to make a case for Jesus’ deity to a Muslim.

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The Laws of Nature

Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM

The constant laws of nature that are the foundation of modern science and mathematics were a development of thinking around the 15-16th centuries—and grounded on theology, the God of the Bible.

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Is the Leviticus Prohibition of Homosexuality Irrelevant?

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 26, 2019 11:08 PM

Alan’s monthly letter for February 2013 Skeptics of all stripes believe the book of Leviticus is irrelevant.

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Christmas Suggestions

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM

Greg gives some Christmas suggestions, then talks about ethical implication of torture, how to answer a question about same-sex marriage tactically, why we should pray if God provides all we need,...

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Is Jesus the Only Way?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:09 PM

The most taxing objection to the biblical message of salvation that I face is: What about the good, sincere person who has never heard about Jesus?

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#STRask: April 23, 2018

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:54 PM

resurrected bodies, altar calls, and deciding on a seminary when you’re unsure of your

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The Intellectual Life and the Fruit of the Spirit

Web Content Article · By brett kunkle On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM

I love the intellectual life. I love the reading, the studying, the debating, the discussions, the ideas. I love all of it. But looming in the shadows are the various threats it poses to the fruit...

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Abdu Murray, Grand Central Question

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:54 PM

Guest: Abdu Murray - Grand Central Question: Answering the Critical Questions of the Major Worldviews

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The Top Ten Podcasts of 2019

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Dec 29, 2019 12:34 AM

Here are the most-listened-to podcasts of 2019—ten of Greg’s long-running podcast, and, as a bonus, the top three episodes of our shorter podcast, #STRask.

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How the Early Church Sought to Resolve Textual Variants

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM

Dan Wallace of the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts has an interesting article offering evidence that the transmission of the New Testament text wasn’t merely linear.

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Five Misconceptions about Holy Week

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM

Andreas Köstenberger and Justin Taylor wrote about “Five Errors to Drop from Your

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#STRask: What Does Boasting in Our Weaknesses Look Like?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jul 21, 2024 7:21 PM

our weaknesses” (2 Cor. 12:7–10), what it means to “sanctify Christ as Lord in your

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The Legend of the Social Justice Jesus

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Oct 29, 2021 6:14 PM

Did Jesus come here to champion the cause of the poor? There’s no question God has a heart for the destitute. Even so, a careful study of the Gospels shows that Jesus’ principle purpose...

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The Fundamental Premise behind Ehrman’s Claims

Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 9:29 PM

Just in time for Holy Week—it’s just about a tradition now for Christmas and Easter—Bart Ehrman is raising the same old doubts about the New Testament documents.

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Update on Melinda’s Progress

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:58 PM

We’ve been keeping you updated on Melinda “The Enforcer” Penner’s situation since her accident. After months of nothing to report, we have some very encouraging news about her progress.

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Our View of Man Matters

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Mar 20, 2020 9:05 PM

Our view of man affects countless cultural practices and laws, including the role and power of the government.

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Father of Modern Taxonomy

Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM

You’ve seen plants referred to by their scientific names, such as Rosa rubiginosa. That form of naming plants and other living things was introduced by a Christian who was a scientist named Carolus...

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How IVF Is Changing Our View of Human Beings

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:59 PM

The common, accepted practices employed in IVF are shaping the way we view human beings in an alarming way.

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